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Starting E316 TA Orientation Graphics

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Starting E316 TA Orientation Graphics

Today, I got an assignment to create some Canvas graphics and a PowerPoint template for the basic English Lit TAs’ orientation. For now, I’m going with the dark blue from the UT secondary palette. Ideally, I would associate English lit with brown, but that’s not a brand color. Blue it is. So far, I’ve done the Canvas callout buttons:

                               

It’s pretty smooth sailing so far. On Monday, I’ll do the rest of the Photoshop work for the Canvas dashboard and home page banner.

UPDATE: I have to redo them on Monday with new text! No problem, though.

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The past week has been busy, but very fulfilling! I’ve been working on an assortment of Basic Training modules as well as digital studio backgrounds. Just recently, I finished the basic training for Cascade, and below is a screenshot of my test site:

I started working on the intermediate training for Cascade as well. I themed it off Berlin, one of my favorite cities and place I have a lot of opinions about.

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My first attempt at a GIF

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My First Attempt at a GIF

I cannot draw. When I have to, I’m basically flying by the seat of my pants. So of course, I was intimidated to do this “basic” training and draw not one, but about 10 frames of a short animation, especially because I don’t have a mouse, let alone a drawing tablet. But it wasn’t that bad! 8-bit art gives a lot of leeway for a lack of artistic talent.

Here’s my (very simple) GIF: